B. W. Johnson’s “Newbie Guide” may be only a single article rather than a series of links to more detailed documentation, but it provides a very useful introductory read for library staff just beginning to familiarize themselves with Koha. It discusses how to catalog items (especially in consortia), manage accounts and budgets, work with item types and circulation codes, and enter MARC records. This guide is written in such a basic, easy-to-understand way that even librarians with no experience on an ILS at all could use it as a first step in training.

ByWater Solutions makes some staff training tutorials for Koha freely available online. A variety of short tutorial videos cover topics such as item modification, reports, tags, defaults, acquisitions, cataloging, special features, and more in Koha.

Koha community has a training page that posts updates about training opportunities and workshops. It does not include materials directly available for library use but does provide the opportunity for libraries to network and receive training from the Koha community.

This blog post from BibLibre talks about performance enhancements achieved by using Plack, a set of Perl tools, with Koha 3.10.

This ByWater Solutions website contains a list of links to testing routines for a new Koha system. Checklists are available for administration, OPAC, search, patrons, circulation, cataloging, tools, reports, acquisitions, and serials.

This ByWater Solutions article describes one library’s experience of migration from Millennium to Koha. The NYU Health Sciences Libraries identified several areas of development for Koha, including electronic resource management, course reserves, and cataloging client enhancement. Overall the libraries were able to migrate relatively quickly because the librarians were very motivated.

B. W. Johnson’s “Newbie Guide” may be only a single article rather than a series of links to more detailed documentation, but it provides a very useful introductory read for library staff just beginning to familiarize themselves with Koha. It discusses how to catalog items (especially in consortia), manage accounts and budgets, work with item types and circulation codes, and enter MARC records. This guide is written in such a basic, easy-to-understand way that even librarians with no experience on an ILS at all could use it as a first step in training.

ByWater Solutions makes some staff training tutorials for Koha freely available online. A variety of short tutorial videos cover topics such as item modification, reports, tags, defaults, acquisitions, cataloging, special features, and more in Koha.

Koha community has a training page that posts updates about training opportunities and workshops. It does not include materials directly available for library use but does provide the opportunity for libraries to network and receive training from the Koha community.

This is the official website for LibLime, the global leader in Koha support. It includes basic information, news, FAQs, demos, and downloads.

Frequently Asked Questions about Evergreen from the Evergreen site answers common questions about this ILS, such as What is Evergreen? What is open source? How many libraries are using Evergreen? How much does it cost?

This is the official Koha support wiki. It includes information about Koha, community participation, development, documentation, Koha versions, Koha and Git, Koha conferences, legal matters, and tips and tricks.

This is the website for the LibLime forum. Users can search the forum for certain topics, start a discussion on a new topic, or release a poll to be voted on.

This is the website of the member forums for Liblime Koha. Forums are available for federal government customers, state and local government customers, academic customers, and commercial customers.

LIS Links is a virtual community or forum page for Indian LIS professionals. Discussion threads address open source topics such as the Koha OSS in addition to news, jobs, events, and groups.

This website describes the collaboration of ByWater Solutions and software.coop on providing Koha EDI support. EDI greatly increases the functionality of the acquisitions module by allowing a direct electronic exchange from one entity to another, making billion and the transmission of orders seamless.

This is the website for ByWater Solutions, an organization that provides service for organizations seeking to migrate to open source alternatives. The website includes basic information, demos, a blog, and contact information.

The LISWire news blog describes ByWater Solutions’ hitting the one-year mark of providing open source services to libraries. The general website also provides a FAQ, mailing lists, RSS feeds, subscription options, and testimonials.

The BibLibre blog describes its partnership with ByWater Solutions. The partnership aims to help meet the demands of the rapidly growing Koha community by providing crucial support for development and migration services.

The Vimal Kumar blog compares Koha and NewGenLib. It discusses Koha's advantage of having a truly global community and a wide developer and vendor base.

The Libology blog includes information about Katipo and LibLime. The main topic covered is the expansion of LibLime.

The LibraryThing blog contains information about support options for Koha. Other recent topics include tag clouds, branded applications, enhancements, audio books, and statistics.

The JacketFlap blog aggregates posts by topic, including open source and LibLime. These posts address topics such as trademark battles and paying for services.

Pages

This is the Facebook page for LibLime, a trusted provider of open source solutions for libraries. It provides very basic information about the company.

This is the Facebook page for ByWater Solutions, an open source support vendor. It contains basic information about the company and invites users to participate in discussions about it and keep informed about current events and issues.

This is the Twitter page for ByWater Solutions, the open source support vendor. Topics of discussion include conferences, notices, hosting, presentations, MARC records, support tickets, patrons, user libraries, customization, and migration preparation.